This just in: new books from The Globe’s John Ibbitson and pollster Darrell Bricker, former international trade minister Roy MacLaren, and more

By Neil MossJan. 28, 2019

Plus, Library and Archives Canada acquires a book that once belonged to Adolf Hitler.

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline, by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson; Mackenzie King in the Age of Dictators: Canada's Imperial and Foreign Policies, by Roy MacLaren; and Too Dumb for Democracy? Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones, by David Moscrop. Book cover images courtesy of McGill Queen's University Press, Goose Lane, and Signal/McClelland and Stewart

In three decades the world’s population will peak and then drop, and when the decline starts it won’t end, The Globe and Mail’s John Ibbitson and Ipsos’s Darrell Bricker suggest in a new book.

Gerald Butts has removed himself from the daily political grind of strategizing how to keep the Liberals in power. But observers say it's unlikely he will be consigned to watch the campaign unfold from the sidelines.

SNC-Lavalin risks a takeover if it's convicted. But aside from likely outrage in Quebec, Ottawa can find other builders for its infrastructure plans if the company is banned from bidding on federal contracts, experts say

The Quebec company had extensive access to government ministers and top staffers, and was the only organization registered to lobby for allowing deferred prosecution agreements for white collar crimes.